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confirmation, unless he shall produce a certificate, signed by the examining Officers of the College, of his possessing a competent knowledge of the colloquial and written languages of the country, especially the Hindoostanee and Persian; and that he is capable of reading the native treaties on medicine, and discoursing with the pupils on ordinary subjects of native science, in intelligible, if not in accurate terms.

"3. Should the candidate require examination in the Sanscrit, Arabic, or other useful Oriental languages, it is to be granted by the public officers of that College, and noted accordingly in their report, and in their certificate of qualification or otherwise."

Vide APPENDIX for forms of application, pay, &c. &c.

CIVIL SERVICE.

GENTLEMEN nominated for the Civil Service in India must go through a preparatory course of instruction at the East India College at Haileybury, and pass certain examinations before they can be finally admitted. For the rules aud regulations, on nomination to the college, vide APPENDIX. Much depends upon the young Civilian's own exertions, talents, and perseverance, to procure him a quick release from the trammels of a College life, and place him at once in the receipts of the Company's salary. Having passed his final examinations in England, he has in India to spend a few months in the Presidency College, previous to his appointment to any particular station.

The young Civilian has much greater need of caution in his money transactions with the Natives than the Cadet, for the Sircars and Dobashes, who are attendant on them on their first arrival, are ever ready to administer to his extravagancies, in hopes of being applied to, and they frequently do not wait for the application, but offer money so freely, with an intimation that "Master may pay whenever he likes," that the unsuspecting victim is caught in a net ere he is

aware of the motives which give rise to this apparent disinterestedness. Their object is, to supply you with every wish,-to make themselves necessary to your comfort,-and to gain such hold upon you, particularly by pecuniary obligations, so that, on your appointment to some place of emolument, they may receive a service under you; and, making use of your confidence, squeeze a bribe from every person who has any matter of business to be settled in your office. If you have the rope of debt around your neck, you may be led to wink at trifling peculations, which, by constant recurrence, grow into overwhelming abuses, such as will, sooner or later, be the means of driving you from the service; you will then find, too late, the game of the obsequious moneylender. Your opportunities for mental improvement should not be thrown away. There is a rich field of oriental literature before you, which it is your duty to explore; in fact, with the means at your disposal, and the education you have enjoyed, you should not quit the service without adding some new reflections and ideas on the history of a country or portions of it, or its people, with whom you have been, or ought to have been, so intimately acquainted.

If you are prudent, and attend to your health, your period of service only finds you in the prime of life, with a rich store of useful knowledge, and a purse well filled with honourable earnings. Let

it be your boast in after-life, that not one penny of it was wrung from the oppressed,-the widow, -or the orphan. With respect to your passage, and conduct on board, the same remarks are as applicable in your case as in the Cadet's. Your outfit will, of course, be somewhat different. The expense he is at for military equipments, you will incur in providing a different style of dress, with many articles of comfort, which, in a military man's baggage, would be too bulky and liable to loss from frequent change of place. The objections to a married life are great, in India, even when the parties have ample means for the variety of expenses it entails; but all of them appear but as a speck in the horizon, when placed by the side of those raised against the native connection,—a connection which has religion, respectability, comfort, and social life opposed to it,-and which has no one feeling, in the first instance, congenial to it, but a disgusting sensuality. Avoid it as you would the plague-spot. If you have not the opportunity, in a few years, of returning to your native land to select a future partner for life, India can boast of a large share of beauty, accomplishments, and solid worth, in the daughters of her civil and military residents, among whom you may be fortunate enough to draw a prize in the matrimonial lottery. The drawbacks are, the frequent separations so often necessary, either by sickness of the female, or the withdrawal of your children,

just at the most interesting age. But as I am not writing to advocate either marriage or celibacy, I shall not enter into the long train of arguments which both could furnish in support of each particular state; but I do most earnestly advise the young aspirant for happiness, in this world and the next, to weigh carefully the misery and consequent results arising from a native connection, before he plants a thorn in his side that never will lose its irritating power.

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